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Count Auditors George H. Warden,
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on Elm street. Is prepared to do all
Kinds of custom work from the finest to
the coarsest and guarantees his work to
give perfect satislactlon. Prompt atten
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RELIEF POURS
INJTSALEM
Food In Abundance For 18,000
Homeless In Fire Swept City
5,000 TENTS ARE ERECTED
Six Deaths Occurred During Fire, Four
of Them Being Directly Caused by
Flames $12,000,000 Estimated Loss.
- Measures for the relief of the 18,000
persons made homeless In the con
flagration at Salem, Mass., are pro
ceeding with military precision.
More than 3,500 were directly do i
pendent upon the relief committee foi
Bhelter, while 4,500 waited patiently in;
the various bread lines for the-food'
which streamed into the city in
abundance. Five thousand tents have
been erected.
Those cared for in the tented camps
were of the poorer class, mostly for
eigners. Nearly all the well-to-do had
found refuge witli friends.
The value of the property dcstroyeJ
by the fire is from $12,000,000 to J15,
000,000, according to the Insurance
men, and a little more than one-half
was insured.
So far as is now known only four
persons lost their lives in the Are and
two more died as a result.
The charred body of the Infant child
of Mrs. Mary Hassel was found In the
ruins of 27 May street.
Samuel P. Wit hey, a paralytic, lost
his life at 26 Prospect street and Mrs.
Sarah Abbott of 131 Lafayette streot
perished.
An unidentified body was also re
covered, the sex of which has not been
determined.
Those who died were Sarah Fluke,
a nurse, who passed away while being
moved from one Jiospltal to another,
and Mrs. Edward McGlone, who died
of heart failure when her house caught
fire.
More than 1,000 homes, were de
stroyed, many of the larger industrial
plants, schools, churches and several
business buildings.
The tire, which started in the leath
er district, got beyond control and
raged until the water of South river
would allow it to go no farther.
The principal part of the devastated
district includes all that section west
of Boston street and east of Essex
street. Theurned over section is
about three miles long and from a half
mile to a mile and a half wide.
The fire started in the plant of the
Karn Leather company in Boston
street, where seventy-five hands were
at work. All escaped, although many
were obliged to jump from second
and third floors. One of these,
Charles Lee, had both legs broken.
After more than twenty-five plants
in the leather district had been
burned the fire spread to the resi
dential section in ward 4 and de
stroyed from fifty to seventy-live
houses. Then it continued Bwirling
through the frame dwellings into ward
3 and finally reached ward 5, the fash
ionable section. The flames licked up
the handsome homes almost the entire
length of Lafayette street.
The public schools Saltonstall and
Ropen went down before the flames.
All the houses on the side streets west
of Lafayette Btreet were destroyed.
The . fire leaped over into the French
district, which is populated by at least
10,000 persons.
From this point the fire attacked
mill No. 5 of the Naumkeag Cotton
company, wl'ich gave employment to
3,600 persons. The mill was de
stroyed. Five plants in the lower part
of ward 5 were burned.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church
which was recently completed at a
cost of $250,000, was burned. St
Joseph's convent and St. Joseph's
parochial school were also wiped out
The sisters and children escaped. The
orphan asylum conducted by the city
also caught fire after twenty-five
sisters had escorted their 150 charges
to St. Mary's school. The asylun
property was destroyed.
When the Salem hospital was
threatened physicians and nurses,
pressing automobiles, wagons and am
bulances into service, took all the
patients to various public Institutions,
where they were as comfortable as
posslbfcs on cots.
The fire got such a terrific headway
early that calls were sent to nearby
towns for firemen and policemen. Firq
companies from Boston, Haverhill,
liynn, Lawrence, Beverly, I'eabody,
Marblehead, Dunvers and even as fa
as Quincy, Newbtiryport and Clou
cester helped the local fire department
stay the blaze.
Five companies of local militia were
erdered out to ptflce the city, help the
homeless and prevent looting and
they were supplemented by two com
panies of militia and one company of
naval cadets from Lynn.
All autombile owners in the city
gladly placed their machines at the
disposal of rescuing parties and many
of the well-to-do joined in helping
tfiirtr poorer fellow-citizens Bave what
furniture and other personal effects
they -uDuld.
H. O. Benson, a director of the
Naumkeag Steam Cotton company, an
nounced at a mass meeting of citizens
that the nil'ls, employing f.,500 opera
tives, would be rebuilt Immediately,
Other manufacturing concerns also
announced they would rebuild.
Heir fa Throne i Austria Is
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FRANCIS FERDINAND.
THREE PROTOCOLS SIGNED
Part of Peace Plan Approved by Del
egates at Niagara Falls.
The first three protocols of the
peace plan prepared by the A. B. C
group of South American mediator:
were signed at a full conference held
by the American and Mexican dele
gates to the conference held at Ni
agara Falls.
The protocols adopted follow:
Article 1 The provisional govern
ment referred to in the protocol No
3 shall be constituted by agreement of
the delegates representing the partiee
between which internal argument in
Mexico is taking place.
2 Sectior (a). Upon the constitu
tion of the provisional government in
the city of Mexico the government ol
the United States of America will
recognize it immediately and there
upon diplomatic relations between the
two countries will be restored.
Section (b). The government of the
United Sta'es will not in any form
whatsoever claim a war indemnity oi
other international satisfaction.
Section (c). The provisional gov
ernment will proclaim an absolute
amnesty to all foreigners from any
and all political offenses committed
during the period of civil war in Mex
ico. Section (d). The provisional gov
ernment w"l negotiate for the consti
tution of Internal commissions for the
settlement of the claims of foreign
ers on accr-int of damages sustained
during the period of civil war as a con
sequence of military acts or the acts
of national authorities.
Article 3 The three mediating gov
ernments agree on their part to recog
nize the provisional government or
ganized as provided by section 1 of
this protocol.
FLIGHT IS POSTPONED
Porte Won't Attempt to Cross Ocean
Before August.
The attempt of Rodman Wana
maker's transatlantic flying boat
America to cross the Atlantic has been
postponed until after the middle of
July. This announcement was made
after a conference between Lieutenant
Porte and U. H. Curtiss and Mr. Gash,
representing Mr. Wanamaker.
Mr. Gash said they had decided to
give Mr. Curtiss more time to put the
giant flying boat through her tests and
that the machine would not be shipped
from New York for Newfoundland
until July 11. Lieutenant Porte will
probably postpone his start until the
full moon in August.
GOOD OUTNUMBER BAD
Trade Reports Indicate Stimulation of
Business.
Dun's Review of Trade says this
week:
"Reports from the principal trade
centers continue Irregular, but favor
able advices outnumber those of op
posite character, especially in agri
cultural sections, the prospect of an
other year of bountiful harvests stimu
lating retail sales In the west and
southwest.
"fhis month has witnessed an ex
pansion in demand for iron and steel,
yet price concessions are still a fea
ture. The transporting companies are
still buying conservatively."
$2,550,000 Rockefeller Gift.
A donation of $2,550,000 from John
D. Rockefe'ler to the Rockefeller In
stitution of Medical Research was an
nounced. Simple Pleasures.
To become agnln more Joyous, more
childlike, more naive than we are, to
look into the world with clear eyes and
to cQiisijrn to the devil the problemat
ical chimeras behind which only too
often hides the unclean turmoil of the
market plnce, chlmerns which hnve
ninde us tinlinppy, slavish mid uncer
tain that would do us nil good. Bos
ton Transcript
Write your name with love, mercy
and kindness on the hearts of those
about you, and you will never be forgotten.
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RUYAL UUUPLb
ASSASSINATED
Archduke Francis Ferdinand anrf
Wite Are Killed
BOMB MISSES. BULLETS HIT
Heir to Austrian Throne and Dutchess
Meet Death While on Annual Visit
to the Annexed Province of Bosnia.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, nephew
of Emperor Francis Joseph and heir
to the Austrian throne, and the Duch
ess of Hohenberg, his morganic wile,
were assassinated at Sarayevo, the
capital of Bosnia.
Two attempts were made on tho
lives of the royal party.
A bomb thrown at their motorcar
was warded off by the archduke. Later
a young Servian student emptied his
revolver at the royal car and the arch
duke and the duchess were killed.
The archduke, was struck full in the
face and the duchess was shot through
the abdomen and throat. They died
a few minutes after reaching the
palace, to which they were hurried.
Those responsible for the assassina
tion took care that it should prove ef
fective, as there were two assailants,
the first armed with a bomb and the
second with a revolver. The bomb
was thrown at the royal automobile as
it was proceeding to the town hall,
where a reception was to be held.
The archduke saw the deadly mis
sile hurtling through the air and ward
ed it off with his arm. It fell outside
the car and exploded, slightly wound
ing two aid de camps in a second car
and half a dozen spectators.
It was on the return of the proces
sion that the tragedy was added to
the long list, of those that have dark
ened the pages of the recent history
of the Hapsburgs.
As the royal automobile reached a
prominent point in the route to the
palace an eighth grade student, Gavrio
Prinzip, sprang out of the crowd and
poured a deadly fusillade of bullets
from an automatic pistol at the arch
duke asd princess.
Prinzip and a fellow conspirator, jl
compositor from Trebinje named Gab
rinovics, barely escaped lynching by
the infuriated spectators. They finally
were seized by the police, who afford
ed them protection. Both are natives
of the province of Herzegovina.
The first atteirpt against the arch
duke occurred Just outside the girls'
high school. His car had restarted
after a brief pause for an inspection
of the building when Gabrinovics
hurled the bomb. This was so suc
cessfully warded off by the archduke
that it fell directly beneath the follow
ing car, the occupants of which, Count
von Boos-Waldeck and Colonel Mo
rizzo, were struck by slivers of iron.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand stopped
his car and after making inquiries as
to their injuries and lending what aid
he could, continued his Journey to the
town hall. There the burgomaster be
gan the customary address, but the
archduke sharply interrupted and
snapped out:
"Herr Burgomaster, we have come
here to pay you a visit and bombs
have been thrown at us. This is al
together an amazing indignity."
After a pause, the archduke said:
"Now you may speak."
On leaving the hall the archduke
and his wife announced their intention
of visiting the wounded members of
their suite at the hospital on their
way back to the palace. They were
actually bound on their mission if
mercy when at the corner of Rudo'f
Btrasse and Franz Josef strasse Prin
zip opened re.
A bullet struck the archduke In the
face. The duchess was wounded In
the abdomen and another bullot stru k
her in the 'hroat, severing an artery.
She fell unconscious across her hus
band's knee. At the same moment
the archduke sank to the floor of the
car.
The assassins were interrogated by
the police and both seemed to glory In
their exploit.
Prinzip said he had studied for a
time at Belgrade. He declared he had
long Intended to kill some eminent
person from nationalist motives. He
was awaiting the archduke at a point
where he knew the automobile would
Blacken speed,- turning into Franz
Josef strasse. The presence of the
duchess In the car caused him to hesi
tate, but only for a moment. Then his
nerve returned and he emptied his
pistol at the Imperial pair. He denied
that he had any accomplices.
Prinzip is eighteen years oil.
Nedeljo Gabrinovics Is twenty-one. He
told the police he had obtained the
bomb from anarchists at Belgrade,
whose names he did not know.
After his unsuccessful attempt to
blow up tl-e imperial visitors Gab
rinovics sprang Into the river Mil
Jacka In an effort to escape, but wit
nesses of his crime plunged after him
and seized him.
A few yards from the scene of the
shooting an unexplodcd bomb was
found, which, it is suspected, wa
thrown away by an accomplice after
hft had noted the success of Prln.lp's
attack.
King's Hat Knocked Off.
King George's hat was struck by m
bundle of nilitant literature, thrown
by suffragettes in Lor don.
"Do Anything" Aviator Star
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1914, by American Preas Association.
CHARLES S. NILES.
Charles S. Niles at Governors
Island, near New York, gave an ex
hibition of flying that amazed all whe
witnessed his exploits. After looping
the loop, describing the letter S, doing
the wing over wing drop and flying
head down for 3,600 feet he rose in
great circles to a height of more than
2,000 feet with the wings of the ma
chine almost perpendicular, some
thing, he said, which had never been
done before. The picture shows the
aviator flying upside down.
CONGRESS
House Approves Sale of Warships.
The administration's proposal to sell
the battleships Idaho and Mississippi
to Greece, already approved by the
senate, was passed by the house, 171
to 87. One dreadnought will be built
with the proceeds. Turkey had for
mally protested the sale.
The action of the house allows the
house managers in conference to
agree to the senate amendment, with
alterations providing specific appro
priations for the new dreadnought,
which will cost $7,800,000 exclusive of
armor and armament. The proposal
provides Immediate funds of $2,635,000
to begin work on the vessel as soon as
the sale Is consummated.
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Prohibition Vote Abandoned.
Plans for a decisive vote in the
house rules committee on July 1 on
the Hobson constitutional amendment
for nationwide prohibition have been
abandoned.
Chairman Henry, In the midst of a
campaign in Texas, has suggested a
postponement until Aug. 1, and the
Democratic members have concurred.
There wore many predictions In the
house that there would be no action
at this session.
Movies oi White House Grounds.
The movies have mado their way
Into the White House grounds. Last
Saturday evening the president and
members of his family with members
of the cabinet made an appreciative
audience for a presentation of an
Italian drama staged by Augustus
Thomas, the playwright.
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Chicago, June 30.
Hogs Receipts, 35,000. Light, $8.15
8.45; mixed, $8.05(8.50: heavy,
$7.95ffT8.45; rough, $7.95 8.10; pigs,
$7.35!T8.25.
Cuttlo Receipts, 17,000. Beevs,
$7.50(3 9.45; cows and heifers, $3.70
8.90; steers, $G.90(cj 8.25.
Sheep Receipts, 22,000. Sheep,
$5.50(5 6.25; yearlings, $6.30(7.30;
lambs, $6.40 S.25; springs, $6.75
9.25.
Wheat July, 77.
Corn July, 67'j.
Oats July, 37.
Pittsburgh, Juno 30.
Cattle Choice, $8.S()r(i9; prime,
$8.G0(fi8.80; good $8.25 8.50; com
mon, $68:7; heifers, $5.50(fi8; com
mon to good fat bulls, $3.50ra"; com
mon to good fat cows, $:i.50ft'7.25;
fresh cows and springers, $40f? 76.
Sheep and Lambs I'rimo wethers,
$6.10fi6.25; good mixed, $5.60?ri6; fair
mixed, $55.50; culls and common, $2
3.50; spring lambs, $r(i'9; veal
calves, $10ii 10.75; lieavy and thin
calves $7(i(8.
Hogs Pr'me heavy, heavy mixed,
$8.65; mediums, heuvy Yorkers, light
Yorkers, $8.65(?i8.70; plus, $8.60(ii 8.60;
roughs, $7.25 fa' 7.40; stags, $6.50 fi 6.75.
Butter Prints, 27-i (f? 2S. Eggs
Fresh, 20ii20Ms. Poultry Live hens,
16(617.
Cleveland, June 30.
Calvjs Coed to choice, $10.50(filt:
fair co good, $91i 10.25; heavy and
common, $li?( 8.
Cattle Choice fat steers, $8.509;
jood to choice, $S$ 8.50; liiih liers and
springers, $0ftS0.
INTERROGATION
POINTSJRASEO
Business to Get Its "Constitu
tion of Freedom"
WILSON SEES ROSY OUTLOOK
President Addresses Gathering of
Editors and Assures Them That
Business Depression la Passing.
"A new constitution of freedom for
business" is the object of the admin
istration's trust legislation program,
President Wilson declared, addressing
a party of Virginia editors at the
White House. Ho predicted the coun
try was on the verge of a great busi
ness revival.
The president said that a temporary
business depression at present was
sure to pass as soon as business
realized that the anti-trust legislation
is sure to be enacted.
The president in his address said:
"I want to say to you that the signs
of a very strong business revival are
becoming more and more evident
from day to day.
"On all hands it Is admitted that
there are processes of business or
have been processes of business in
this country which ought to be cor
rected, but the correction has been
postponed and in proportion to the
postponement the fever has increased
the fever of apprehension.
"There is nothing more fatal to busi
ness than to be kept guessing from
month to month and from year to year
whether something serious is going to
happen to It or not and what In par
ticular is going to happen to It if any
thing does.
"The guessing went on, the air was
full of Interrogation points for ten
years or more. Then came an admin
istration which for the first time had
a definite p-ogram of constructive cor
rection. And the administration pro
ceeded to carry out this program."
The president referred to the enact
ment of the tariff bill and currency
reform bill and the opposition en
countered to their enactment and
said:
"Then we advanced to the trust pro
gram and HKaln the same dread, the
same hesitation, the same urgency
that the thing should be postponed.
"It will not be postponed. We know
what we are doing. We have been
fortunate enough to obtain the advice
of men who understand the business
of the country and we know tho effect
is going to be exactly what the effect
currency reform was, a sense of relief
and of security.
"Because when the program is fin
ished it Is finished. The Interrogation
points are rubbed out off the shite;
business is given Its constitution of
freedom and is bidden go forth undpr
the constitution. And just as soon as
it gets that leave and freedom there
will bo a boom of business in this
country such as we have never wit
nessed in the United States.
"I am a friend of business and '
servant of the country would not dare
stop in this program and bring on an
other long period of agitation. Agita
tion longer continued would be fatal
to the business of the country, and if
this program Is delayed there will
come agitation, with every letter in
the word a capital."
JOHNSON WINS FIGHT
Championship Battle Brings Protests
From Paris Crowd.
Jack Johnson, the champion heavy
weight fighter of the world, in Paris
successfully defended his tltlo in a
twenty-round bout with Frank Mo
ran of Plt'sburgh. Experts declare
the twenty rounds of milling was tho
worst ever seen In a championship
contest.
Whon the twenty rounds were end
ed the blac'.: man was richer by prob
ably $100,003.
The Immense crowd that packed
the Velodrome d'HIver vented their
dissatisfaction throughout the contest
with volleys of boos and called to the
men to show some fight. It was not
a fight. It wns not even a near fight.
Moran showed absolutely nothing and
Johnson never had to extend himself.
The champion either deliberately al
lowed Moran to stay the limit by re
fusing to punish him or he "has noth
ing." GRIT ONCE MORE A WINNER
Columbia Crew Dashes Over Line
First on Hudson.
Columbia won the intercollegiate
boat race on the Hudson, with Penn
sylvania, Cornell, Syracuse, Washing
ton and Wisconsin trailing. The vic
tory was won on the sort of grit which
Yule beat Harvard.
A quarter of u mile from the finish
Pennsylvania, Cornell and Columbia,
arter racing bow to bow for two miles,
were practlcully on even terms. Then
Columbia spurted. Her shell sil t
ahead like a driven lance ami flushed
over the line a length and a quarter
ahead of Pennsylvania, with Cornell's
bow ten feet back of tho bow of f.io
Red and Bluu.
Cornell was victorious in the two
miner events. The Cornell junior
varsity crev won from its three rivals
by one and a half lengths and the CY
liell freshman eight on by livj
lengths.
HOUSE SPLIT IN TWO
Lightning Strikes Woman With Infant
In Her Arms.
Mrs. diaries Matheny, aged twenty
three, of Allison, a small coke town
near Uniontown, Pa., was injured
when lightning struck her house, split
ting it into halves. In her arms was
her three-month-old baby, which fell
to the floor uninjured.
The mother was standing in the
doorway of the house during a severe
thunderstorm when the lightning hit
the roof and went to the cellar, com
pletely dividing the house Into two
parts. The infant in the mother's
arms was lying on a pillow, which
broke the force of its fall. Mrs. Ma
theny, who was attended by a phy
sician, failed to recover consciousness.
Her co'idition was reported serious.
FOUR BATHERS DROWN
Cramps Attack and Carry Down Three
Men and Boy.
The Allegheny river claimed tho
lives of four bathers in the Pittsburgh
district. In all four Instances tho
bodies of the victims, seized suddenly
with cramps and drowning before
friends could reach them, were re
covered. The drowned are: George T. Mc
Laughlin, fifty-three years old, a well
known contractor; Grover Bordeln
ceyer, twenty-five; Matt Majaz, eleven,
and Feroldi Angelo, forty-nine.
Convicts Ask For Prohibition Law.
A petition drafted by the prisoners
in the Eastern penitentiary of Penn
sylvania, declaring that fully 70 per
cent of the crime within the state
is directly attributable to the exces
sive use of intoxicating liquors and
asking for the enactment of prohibi
tion, is being circulated among the
convicts confined in that Institution.
It is reported that 1,500 signatures of
inmates of the prison will be attached
to the petition which Is to be present
ed to the legislature.
Boy Mistaken For Porcupine.
John Dutchess, twelve years old, was
shot and seriously injured at Kane,
Pa., when he was mistaken by boys
for a porcupine. Dutchess was out
hunting chipmunks and seeing one
enter a hole In the trunk of a treo,
he climbed the tree. While he was
trying to chase the chipmunk out cf
the hole several other boys came
along and seeing something move In
the tree opened fire.
Legal to Give Away Ice Cream.
That ice cream can be given away
free with the sale of pie, on Sunday
and is not a violation of the blue law
Is the decision of Justice of the Peace
Thomas Thomas in the case at Sha
ron, Pa., of William Waters, proprie
tor of a restaurant at Wheatland. Rev.
W. A. Huzza charged Waters with vio
lating the law. The minister was or
dered to pay the costs.
Cigarette Sellers Rounded Up.
Fifty-two retail tobacconists and
drug clerks, including three women,
were taken into custody in Fittsburgli
by special detectives of District At
torney R. H. Jackson's office in one cf
the most spectacular raids ever
planned In Allegheny county. The
specific charge against all of the de
fendants is Belling cigarettes to
minors.
General Taylor Heat Victim.
News of the death at Reedsvilie of
General John P. Taylor, aged eighty
seven, past commander of the Penn
sylvania department, G. A. R., and
a widely known Civil war veteran,
was received In Lewlston, Pa. His
death was caused by heat prostration
while superintending the work at a
lumber camp.
American Altitude Record Broken.
Silas Christofl'erson, aviator, in a bi
plane, flew over the peak of Mount
Whitney, 14,8!I8 feet high. In Cali
fornia. He attained an altitude esti
mated at more than 16,000 feet, and
established, it is contended, a now
American altitude record.
Thomas Sentenced For Murder.
Wulter Thomas, convicted at
Waynesburg, Pa., of second degree
murder for the death of Mrs. Joseph
Price at Rices Landing on Sept. 2,
1913, was sentenced to not less than
ten nor more than twenty years in the
Western penitentiary.
$1,000,000 Extension Planned by Mills.
The Sharon (Pa.) Steel Hoop com
pany has planned to erect open hearth
furnaces and u blooming mill at
Wheatland, Pa. The total expenditure
In Improvements will amount to moro
than $1,000,000.
Hunger Striker Dies.
As a result of a hunger strike of
fifteen days L. B. Matthews, under
sentence of ten years in the peniten
tiary, died in his cell at tho county
Jail in Holly Springs, Miss.
Man Killed at Grade Crossing.
Orvlllo A. Mayes, uged twenty
eight, of Granville, was struck by a
fust Pennsylvania passenger train and
instantly killed while driving from
Lewiston to Altoona, Pa.
Body Found Under Railroad Bridge.
The body of un unidentified mail
was found in the creek under the Erie
railroad bridge west of Corry, Pa., by
a track walker. The man had appar
ently fallen from a train.
Fall From Tree Paralyzes Man.
James F. Rolii-rts of Salem town
ship, near Greenville, Pa., Is paralyzed
ns a result of falling eighteen feet
from a cherry tree. Littlo hope is en
tertained of lis recovery.